Teams determine the salaries of unsigned players with between zero and three years of Major League service time, with the only requirement being the Major League minimum ($500,000 in 2014). As a formality, players either "agree" to their salaries or get "renewed." This year, all 25 of the Angels' players "agreed."

To determine pre-arbitration salaries, the Angels use a sliding-scale system that gives significantly more weight to service time than performance. But they broke that rule for Trout, who was signed to a $1 million contract that's the highest ever for a pre-arbitration player.